All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

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One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

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The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

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What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

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